On 31 May 2013, at 08:06 , Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, as a reminder, ePub files are actually Zip archives, and thus all > related considerations apply. Right. But the behavior I am seeing is not the behavior I was expecting. > Thus, when you open a Zip archive, BBEdit will display the files contained > within that archive in a 'synthetic' project window, and this is also why > the project can't be saved as a standalone file (since it's based directly > on the archive). Right, but I am not trying to do that. >> ANd if I try to make changes, it won't let me switch to another file >> in the epub without wanting to save, but of course it is not actually >> able to save the changes to the epub I am trying to edit. > > The first behavior is expected, since BBEdit must incrementally update the > Zip archive, but BBEdit should indeed be able to save any changes you've > made. Hmm. Well, I opened "Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.epub" by force-dragging it to BBedit and I get a pseudo project showing a few files, then Pride_and_prejudice_split_[001-0076].html I click on one of the html files and I change "Jane" to "Joan". I then click on the next file in the list. I get "Do you want to save the changes to "Pride_and_Prejudice_split_005.html" and if I say "Save" then I am asked where I want to save it to. Which means that I cannot edit the ePub file as I was expecting. It appears that I must explode the epub, then I can edit the files as normal, and then I can try to recreate the epub archive as it's supposed to be, knowing that ePub is an astonishingly persnickety form of .zip that breaks if you look at it askance. -- Battlemage? That's not a profession. It barely qualifies as a hobby. 'Battlemage' is about impressive a title as 'Lord of the Dance'. <PAUSE> I'm adding Lord of the Dance to my titles. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
